KR101688029B1 - Information system based on geofencing technology - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a guiding system based on geofencing technology and a guiding method based on geofencing technology. The guiding system based on geofencing technology includes: a local guiding unit including an environment setting module, a local guiding information module, a geofencing information providing module, a route guiding information providing module, a stop information managing module, an information inquiry module, a virtual experience module, and a field execution module; a database management unit for managing an environment information DB, a local guiding information DB, a geofencing information DB, a route guiding information DB, and a stop information DB; and an interface unit including a GPS interface module, a communication (Wi-Fi, 3G/4G) interface module, and a text-to-speech (TTS) interface module, which implement interfaces with a GPS reception function, a Wi-Fi communication function, a 3G/4G communication function, and a TTS conversion function, and which are basic devices of a mobile apparatus portable by a user.

Description

INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED ON GEOFENCING TECHNOLOGY [0001]

The present invention relates to a geofencing technology-based guidance system and method, and more particularly, to a guidance system and method based on geofencing technology, in which a user carrying a mobile device equipped with a geographical information system (app program) , The designated area guide application program automatically displays a photograph related to the feature of the designated area and a comment converted to the user's preferred language, and at the same time, a text-to- Speech) conversion function is used to provide voice information. When the user moves out of the geofence area of the designated area in the designated area, the interested area is managed as a transit area, and the user searches the interest area in the shortest distance, To a geofencing technology based guidance system and method.

With the development of the mobile communication network and the development of the specification of the mobile device, the mobile device has become a necessity of the modern person beyond the scope of the conventional simple communication device or the information providing device, and is evolving into a total entertainment device. Recently, communication between objects has been actively performed due to the development of the Internet of Thing (IoT) technology, Bluetooth communication, and Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. NFC tag or beacon for Near Field Communication (NFC) is installed near a designated area. When a user carrying a mobile device approaches and receives information from an NFC Tag or a beacon, It can be downloaded and checked on the server system. In addition, a virtual boundary (Geofence-GeoFence) is set in a designated area on a digital map, so that an effort is made to implement a service that provides relevant information when a user carrying the mobile device approaches the virtual boundary (Geofence-GeoFence) have. Geofence is a combination of 'geo', which is a prefix indicating the meanings of 'earth' and 'soil', and 'fence', which means a fence, (a virtual perimeter for a real-world). These geofences are 100 m radius around a certain point, and the predetermined area serves as a geofence. Geofencing is a compound word of geographic and fencing. It is an application programming interface (API) technology that informs the geographical user who is carrying the mobile device inside the fence. This is an interface using GPS (Global Positioning System) which is one of the location tracking technologies. If a virtual fence called geofence is set on a digital map through GPS, Geo-fencing is the role of geo-fencing to allow users who carry a mobile device to be informed of various information, such as photographs, descriptions, and surrounding information, of a user who carries the mobile device.

However, it is inconvenient to install and maintain NFC tags or beacons in designated areas at a cost in advance in a guidance system that combines geofencing technology and object Internet technology. Also, various information related to the area where the NFC tag or the beacon is installed should be managed in the web server system, and when the user carrying the mobile device accesses the web server system and downloads the photograph and the comment, The user who carries the mobile device has a problem of paying for the data communication cost. Also, when the user views the text information together with the downloaded photograph, the user does not adequately respond to the surrounding situation, There is a limit to providing information in multiple languages. In addition, the Geofencing Application Programming Interface (API) provided by Google or Apple provides a simple circular setting function, which makes it difficult to accurately explain the characteristics of a designated area.

Korean Patent Publication No. 2015-0138441 Korean Patent No. 10-1573198 Korea Patent Publication No. 2014-0032063 Korea Patent Publication No. 2015-0105795 Korean Patent Publication No. 2015-0089666 Korean Patent Publication No. 2015-0077423

Tour guide system using geofencing and NFC technology, digital convergence study (Journal of digital convergence 1738-1916 2014,12 (8), pp 211,

Disclosure of the Invention The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile device which is capable of carrying a mobile device visited at a designated area - a tourist destination of a specific local government, a coast of a specific local government body, a large temple, a university campus, A function of downloading and installing a designated area guide application program on a mobile device of a user who has a mobile device connected to a public or private Wi-Fi network by a user, a function of setting an execution environment of the designated area guide application program, A virtual experience mode in which a user can experience a virtual area of interest by a major route in a designated area without visiting the site, a field experience mode in which a user carrying the mobile device actually visits the designated area and receives guidance , The information inquiry mode, the virtual experience mode, and the field execution mode (GPS) coordinate information reception function, a WiFi communication, a 3G or 4G communication function, a text-to-speech (TTS) communication function, The present invention provides a guidance system based on geofencing technology having a function of interfacing with a function and a method thereof.

To accomplish the above object, a geofencing technology-based guidance system includes an environment setting module that sets at least one of an execution environment of a designated area guidance application program, a user preference language setting, a TTS voice type, and whether to use GPS location information, A local guide information providing module for providing at least one of a name, a photograph, an explanation, and a translation in a language defined in the environment setting to be guided by the user, a GPS coordinate information of a region of interest to be designated by the designated region, A route guidance information providing module for providing route information connecting interest areas to be guided by the designated area, an information inquiry module for providing various information provided by the area guidance information providing module to the user, The user does not visit the designated area and uses the route information provided by the route guide information providing module A virtual experiential module for allowing a user to experience a virtual experience, a field execution module for receiving information provided by the local information providing module when the user visits the designated area while visiting the designated area directly, An environmental information DB including one or more of a language type, a TTS voice type, a developer information, and a help generated or referred to by the area guide unit, a name of the designated area, An image file representing a region of interest, a main interest area within a designated area, an image file of each interest area, a description of a characteristic of a region of interest in Korean, and a comment translated into one of English, Japanese, and Chinese A geographical information DB of the interested area in the designated area, GPS coordinate information (longitude, latitude), geographical information A geofence information DB including information of at least one of a fence, an outer border, a buffered zone, an inner border, an upper geofence ID, and a lower geofence ID, A route guidance information DB including at least one of a track data ID, a track data name, a region of interest connected to each track ID, a distance between each of the interested areas, and a time required for passage (walking) And a database management unit for managing a waypoint information DB including geofence information of the area of interest.

According to one aspect of the present invention, the data generated or referred to by the area guide unit is stored in an environment information DB, a local guide information DB, a geofence information DB, a route guide DB, And a database management unit including a waypoint information DB.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a GPS receiving program, a WiFi, a 3G or a 4G communication program, a text-to-speech (TTS) program, , A GPS interface module (WiFi, 3G / 4G) communication interface module, and a TTS interface module.
According to one aspect of the present invention, when the user carrying the mobile device moves out of the geofence area of the visited area, the site execution module searches for an inner border, a buffered zone, a geofence, Outer Border), a function of recording the entry date and time of the corresponding geofence, the date and time of entry, and the waypoint GPS coordinates information in a waypoint information DB, and a function of obtaining a geofence of the shortest distance among the interested areas, It automatically recognizes and provides the distance, direction, estimated time information to the area of interest, the total distance and estimated total time of visiting the entire area of interest within the specified area, the total distance traveled to the present time, It includes functions.

Meanwhile, the geofencing technology-based guidance method according to the above-described embodiments of the present invention includes a designated area guidance application program installation step and a designated area guidance step.

According to one aspect of the present invention, in the step of installing the designated area guide application program, when a signal is received from the beacon, the designated area guide application program corresponding to the operating system of the user mobile device carrying the mobile device is accessed by accessing the web server system, The user carrying the mobile device accesses the application store of Google or Apple that supports the operating system of the user's mobile device, downloads and installs the designated area guide application program, and sets the designated area guide application program execution environment. When setting the execution environment, the user can select one of Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese in the preferred language of the user carrying the mobile device through the language setting function.

According to one aspect of the present invention, in the designated area guidance step, there is an information inquiry mode for the designated area, a virtual experience mode for experiencing the visit without visiting the designated area, and a field execution mode for visiting the designated area.

 According to one side, in a field execution mode, a user who carries a mobile device installs a designated area guide application program on a mobile device, and when the user reaches a geofence area of interest in a designated area, the designated area guide application program automatically Provides image information of the area of interest and a comment to the user who carries the mobile device with text and voice in the language preferred by the user who carries the mobile device and manages the waypoint information. In addition, if the user departs from the geofence of the interested area, the user searches for the closest interested area excluding the existing waypoint, and presents the direction, distance, and estimated time of the interested area to the user carrying the mobile device. Time total, nearby GPS coordinate information of interest.

As described above, according to the embodiments of the present invention,

First, when the user carrying the mobile device approaches the area of interest within the designated area, the designated area guide application program automatically recognizes the area of interest by using the geofence information set in the digital map in advance, , And provides the text information in text and voice of the language preferred by the user carrying the mobile device.

Second, if the user carrying the mobile device moves out of the geofence of the interested area, effective guidance can be provided by presenting the distance and direction to the nearest interested area out of the interested areas except for the waypoint GPS coordinate information and the existing waypoint.

Third, the virtual experience mode using the route guidance DB and the geofence information DB enables the user carrying the mobile device to receive information such as the effect of visiting the site without visiting the site.

1 is a diagram illustrating a geofencing technology based guidance system service framework according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a geofencing technology based guidance system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a step of guiding a designated area using the geofencing technology based guidance system shown in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a method of installing the designated area guidance app program shown in FIG. 3 in a user mobile device carrying a mobile device and setting a designated area guidance application program execution environment.
Fig. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the step of guiding the designated area shown in Fig.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to or limited by the embodiments. In describing the embodiments, a detailed description of well-known functions or constructions may be omitted so as to clarify the gist of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a guidance system 10 based on the geofencing technology and a method thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. For reference, FIG. 1 is a designated area guidance service framework according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a configuration diagram of a geofencing technology based guidance system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a geo-fencing technology-based designated area guiding method using the geo-fencing technology-based guiding system shown in FIG. 4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of downloading and installing a designated area guide app program shown in FIG. 3 on a mobile device of a user carrying a mobile device and setting an execution environment of the designated area guide app program. 5 is a flowchart schematically illustrating the designated area guidance step shown in FIG.

Here, 'designated area' refers to tourist sites of specific local governments, coasts of specific local governments, large temples, university campuses, national parks, natural learning sites, and famous tourist attractions overseas.

For reference, referring to FIG. 1, the service framework is composed of three layers. First, the device layer recognizes and associates the beacon, GPS, and WiFi devices. Second, the platform layer includes the data manager section, the data interpretation and management section, and the data providing section. The data supervising section includes the area guidance information DB of the designated area, the geofence information DB of the designated area, and the route guidance information DB of the designated area. The data interpretation and management section manages and recognizes various types of data in the data supervision section, interprets them in real time, and transmits the results through an API (Application Programming Interface) to the information inquiry mode, the field execution mode, and the virtual experience mode. The third application layer is a part where application programs using the first and second layers are configured.

The geofencing technology-based guidance system 10 includes an environment setting module 21 for setting an execution environment of the designated area guidance application program, a area guidance information providing module 22 for providing the area guidance information, A route guidance information providing module 24 for providing route information connecting a region of interest within the designated area, and a field execution module 28. The geofence information providing module 23 provides fence information, An intermediate destination information management module 25 that is managed at the time of entry, an information inquiry module 26 that guides the designated area area information, a virtual experience module 27 that experiences a virtual experience without visiting the designated area, Data generated or referred to in each module of the area guide unit 20 and the area guide unit 20 including the field execution module 28 that the user actually visits by visiting the designated area is actually guided, A geographical information DB 32, a geofence information DB 33, a route guidance information DB 34, a waypoint information DB 35 (hereinafter referred to as " route information DB ") managed by a DBMS (Data Base Management System) ) And a GPS interface module 41 for exchanging data with a GPS position information reception function, which is a basic function of the mobile device, a WiFi communication, a 3G communication or a 4G communication function, which is a basic function of the mobile device, (WiFi, 3G / 4G) communication interface module 42 and an interface unit 40 including a TTS (Text-to-Speech) function, which is a basic function of the mobile device, and a TTS interface module 43, .

The area guide unit 20 sets the execution environment of the designated area guidance application program, and transmits predetermined area area guidance information, designated area geofence information, and designated area route guidance information to an information inquiry module, a virtual experience module, And provides the information to the execution module. When the user carrying the mobile device inquires information about the designated area, performs a virtual experience, visits the actual site and receives guidance, and records the information in the stopover information DB when passing through the stopping place. To this end, the area guide unit 20 includes an environment setting module 21, a local guide information providing module 22, a geofence information providing module 23, a route guidance information providing module 24, 25, an information inquiry module 26, a virtual experience module 27, and a field execution module 28.

The environment setting module 21 sets the execution environment of the designated area guidance app program and stores it in the environment information DB after installing the designated area guidance app program in the mobile device of the user carrying the mobile device . The environment information DB 31 includes alarm type, language type, calander type, TTS voice type, temperature type, use of GPS position information, developer information, help, and the like.

The information inquiry module 26 uses the area guide information providing module 22 to transmit the content of the area guide information DB 32 registered when creating the designated area guide application program to the user carrying the mobile device, Provides voice information. At this time, the language setting of the environment information DB 31 is confirmed, texts corresponding to the languages are provided as text, and at the same time, voice information is provided to the user carrying the mobile device through the TTS interface module 43. The area guide information DB 32 includes a name, an area, a number of resident population, a photo file representing the area, a description area, a main interest area in the designated area, an image file of each interest area, And a description sentence translated into English, Japanese, and Chinese.

The virtual experience module 27 allows a user carrying the mobile device to experience a virtual experience. For this purpose, the route guide information providing module 24 is used to create a route guide information DB 34, which is registered when creating a designated area guide application program, on the digital map of the mobile device of the user carrying the mobile device Display the area and move it to the virtual. When the GPS coordinate information during the virtual movement passes through the outer boundary and inner boundary of the geofence information DB 33 registered at the time of creation of the designated area guidance app program, Text, and voice information to the user carrying the mobile device through the area guide information providing module 22. At this time, the language setting of the environment information DB 31 is confirmed, texts corresponding to the languages are provided as text, and at the same time, voice information is provided to the user carrying the mobile device through the TTS interface module 43. The route guidance information DB 34 includes a track data ID in a designated area, a track data name, an area of interest connected by a track ID, a distance between each interested area, and a time required for passage (walking). Also, the geofence information DB 33 includes GPS coordinate information of a region of interest in the designated area, a geofence shape, an outer boundary of the geofence, an inner boundary, a buffer zone interval, a superior geofence ID, a lower geofence ID, have.

When the user carrying the mobile device installs the designated area guide application program in the mobile device and starts the movement by visiting the designated area, the mobile device of the user carrying the mobile device displays the digital map and corresponding And GPS coordinate information is provided through the GPS interface module 41 in real time. When the provided GPS coordinate information passes through the outer boundary and the inner boundary of the geofence information DB 33 registered at the time of creating the designated area guidance app program, the contents of the area guide information DB 32 corresponding to the interested area Text, and voice information to the user who carries the mobile device through the area guide information providing module 22. At this time, the language setting of the environment information DB 31 is confirmed, texts corresponding to the languages are provided as text, and at the same time, voice information is provided to the user carrying the mobile device through the TTS interface module 43. When a user carrying the mobile device passes through the inner boundary of a geofence, the geofence information providing module 23 searches for the closest region of interest in the geofence information DB 23, And records the interested area in the waypoint information DB 35 via the waypoint information management module 25. [ The transit point information DB 35 includes GPS coordinates of an area of interest, an entry date and time, a date and time of passage, and the like.

A method of guiding a geographical area based on geofencing technology using the geofencing technology-based guiding system 10 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5. FIG.

A designated area guidance app program is installed as shown in FIG. 3 (100). In the designated area guide application program installing step 100, a user carrying the mobile device searches for an application program in an application store for the operating system of the mobile device, downloads the application program, and installs the downloaded program. Specifically, when a signal is received from a router or a beacon upon arrival at a designated area, the designated area guide application program installation step 100 automatically connects (104) to the web server system according to whether the user carrying the mobile device is allowed to install The area guide application program is downloaded (105). If you do not receive a signal from the router or beacon If the user who is carrying the mobile device is Android, go to the Google Play store of Google (101) and if it is iOS, connect to Apple's Apple App Store 102). The designated area guide application program is retrieved from the corresponding app store and downloaded (103). The downloaded designated area guide application program is installed in the mobile device by the user carrying the mobile device (106). After the installation, the execution environment of the designated area guide application program is set (107). The preferred language is selected and stored in the environment information DB 31 of the database management unit 30 through the environment setting module 21 of the area guide unit 20 .

After the installation of the designated area guide application program 100, the feature of the designated area is guided (200). The designated area guidance step 200 provides an information inquiry mode, a virtual experience mode, and a field execution mode. In the field execution mode, the transit point information DB 35 is recorded by using the transit point information management module 25 every time it passes through the area of interest. Specifically, the designated area guidance step 200 executes a WiFi communication device, a 3G communication device, a 4G communication device, and a GPS receiving device of a user mobile device carrying a mobile device (201). When the guidance system execution mode is the field execution mode, the designated area geofence information is confirmed (202) through the field execution module (28) to guide features of the designated area and confirm the initial place of departure (203). When a user carrying the mobile device passes through an outer border, a buffered zone and an inner border of a region of interest set in advance and enters an area of interest (204) Information is provided (205). The language information of the environmental information DB 31 and the image information representing the area of interest are checked and the corresponding language text information and corresponding text information are converted into voice information through the TTS interface module 43 and simultaneously provided, The buffer area and the outer border in order to move out of the geofence area of interest (206), and records the data in the stopover point information DB (35) through the stopover point information management module (207). If the execution mode of the designated area guidance app program is the information inquiry mode, the list of interest areas within the designated area is inquired (208). Selects an area of interest in the list (209), confirms the language information of the image information and the environment information DB (31) expressing the area of interest, and transmits the corresponding language text information and corresponding text information to the TTS interface module (43) And provides them at the same time. If the execution mode of the designated area guidance app program is the virtual experience mode, the route list of the route guidance DB 34 is inquired through the route guidance information providing module 24 (210), and the corresponding route is selected from the inquired route list (Step 211) and executes (step 212). The virtual experience mode moves the GPS coordinates virtually for each ROI of the selected route and displays the image information representing the ROI registered in advance while moving to the ROI of the ROI when entering / And the environment information DB 31 and converts the corresponding language text information and corresponding text information into voice information through the TTS interface module 43 and simultaneously provides them.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. It can be understood that

10: Geofencing technology-based guidance system
20: Area guide unit
21: Configuration module
22: Local information providing module
23: Geofence information providing module
24: Path guide information providing module
25: Waypoint information management module
26: Information inquiry module
27: Virtual Experience Module
28: Field execution module
30: Database Management Unit
31: Environmental Information DB
32: Local Information DB
33: Geofence information DB
34: Path guide information DB
35: Waypoint information DB
40: Interface unit
41: GPS interface module
42: (WiFi, 3G / 4G) communication interface module
43: TTS interface module

Claims (5)

An environment setting module for setting an execution environment of the designated area information application program, a user preference language setting, a TTS voice type, and whether to use GPS location information, a name of the area of interest to be displayed in the designated area, A geographical information providing module for providing at least one of translations in a language defined in the environment setting, a geofence information providing module for providing GPS coordinate information and geofence information of a region of interest to be guided in the designated area, An information inquiry module for providing various information provided by the area guide information providing module to a user, a route guidance information providing module for providing route guidance information at a remote place without a user visiting the designated area, A virtual experience module for allowing a virtual experience using path information provided by a providing module If you have access to that area of interest by attending in person designated to manage the information of the local area of interest in the field through the execution module, field execution module receives instructions to the information provided by this module provides guidance information guiding unit area; And
An environmental information DB including at least one of a language type, a TTS voice type, a developer information, and a help to be generated or referred to by the area guide unit, a name of the designated area, an area, a number of residents, , An image file of a region of interest in each designated area, a character description of a region of interest in the Korean language, and a comment translated into one or more languages among English, Japanese, Chinese, French, (Geographical coordinates), geographical information (longitude, latitude), geofence, outer border, buffered zone, inner border, ), A geofence information DB including at least one of an upper geofence ID and a lower geofence ID, a route recommended by the designated area manager as a track Data ID, a track Da a route guidance information DB including at least one of a name of the area of interest, an area of interest of interest connected to each track ID, a distance between the respective areas of interest, and a time required for passage (walk), and geofence information of the area of interest via the field execution module A database management unit that manages a waypoint information DB to be executed;
The geofencing technology based guidance system comprising:
The method according to claim 1,
The virtual experience module and the information inquiry module,
When a geographical area of interest within the designated area on the digital map is reached, the image information of the area of interest, the text information prepared in the language selected in the preference setting, and the prepared text information are automatically converted to text- A function of simultaneously providing voice information;
The geofencing technology based guidance system comprising:
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the field execution module comprises:
When a user who carries a mobile device leaves the geofence of a visited area, if the user passes through an inner border, a buffered zone, a geofence, and an outer border of the interested area, A function of recording the arrival date and time of the fence, the advance date and time, and the waypoint GPS coordinate information in the waypoint information DB; And
And extracts an interest area of the shortest distance from the interest area that has already passed through the destination information DB and extracts the distance to the interest area, the estimated time required information, and the total distance And the total estimated time, the total distance traveled to the present, and the total travel time information simultaneously;
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